Organizational Bodies + Curators The Polygon Gallery is one of Canada’s most acclaimed photography and media art galleries. The Gallery moved into its Governor General’s Medal-winning building in 2017 after operating as Presentation House Gallery for 40 years. The organization has presented more than 300 exhibitions and earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most adventurous public art institutions. The Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC), established in London in 1991, is a repository for lost and forgotten stories that lie hidden in the photographic record. Initially focusing on conflict, AMC’s holdings have grown to over eight million images, and it now acts as a laboratory as much as a traditional archive, producing books and exhibitions that span a multitude of genres. Luce Lebart is a French photography historian, exhibition curator and a researcher at the Archive of Modern Conflict. She is the author of many publications including photo books such as Mold is Beautiful (2015) and reference books including A World History of Women Photographers, co-edited with Marie Robert (Thames and Hudson, 2022). Lebart has curated some 20 photography exhibitions, mainly based on photo archives, including five presented at Arles photo festival and others internationally. She started researching and publishing on clouds, photography and meteorology in the late 1990s. Timothy Prus has been curator at the Archive of Modern Conflict since 1992. He is also an exhibition organizer and a photobook editor. Publications include Whale’s Eyelash (2014), Nein, Onkle (2007), Scrapbook (2009) and The Corinthians (2008). Curated exhibitions include Enfin seules (MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2021), Collected Shadows (Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2013), Notes Home (FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, 2013), The Great Refusal (Hayward Gallery, London, 2013), and A Guide to the Protection of the Public in Peacetime (Tate Modern, London, 2014).
Above: Mario Giacomelli, Migratory Birds in Flight, Italy, 1953, silver gelatin prints.
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